Analysis of information sources in references of the Wikipedia article "Bahir" in English language version.
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The first major mystical book in Christendom was Sefer ha-Bahir [The Book of Brightness], which was either produced or edited in Provence in the late twelfth or early thirteenth century, based on earlier sources and attributed to the Tanna R. Nehunya ben Haqanah. (...) It is noteworthy that the first phase of intense kabbalistic activity is bounded by two compositions considered by academic scholars to be pseudepigraphic, Sefer Bahir on one end of the spectrum and Sefer ha-Zohar on the other end.
The earliest dated manuscript from 1298 formed the basis for Scholem's annotated German translation which comprised his doctoral dissertation in 1923.
